FINALLY! After two months of waiting! More KuroFai Island! Let me warn you now though... Y'all are gonna HATE ME.

Day Nine : Part One

With a big yawn, I woke up, but when I closed my mouth, I accidentally nipped Kurogane.

"Isn't it a little early for this, mage?" he groaned.

I had known I was sleeping Kurogane's chest, but I didn't know exactly where until now. I had accidentally nipped his nipple. I blushed and took my head away from him when I realized what I had done, but his strong arm brought me back down. He didn't say anything else. I just took it as a sign that he just wanted to be close to me. I snuggled against him, becoming buried in his skin.

"Last night was wonderful," I whispered into Kurogane after a while of silence.

Yes, I was still floating on clouds about that. Hey, it was my first time! And it was wonderful.

"Heh. Hell yeah it was. Did your ass ever heal?"

I smiled. That sentence was pretty funny.

"Yes, Kuro-puu!" I answered as if he were a parent rather than my half-naked, sexy lover-boy.

Kurogane gave me a playful jab to my back and I snuggled in closer, shutting my eyes.

"Like I said, you'll get used to that."

I smiled at his statement, wondering when he thought the next time might arrive and letting Kurogane's steady heartbeat take me back to sleep.

When I woke up again, I stayed up. Kurogane left to go prepare breakfast. I told him I would talk to Karolene about last night since I knew he was no good with words.

"Karolene? Karolene!"

I found her in the potion room

"Huh? Oh, hiiii Ffaaaiii." she greeted me with a giant yawn. It renewed my guilt about all of our noise making from previous night. "Good morning!"

"Good morning, Karolene. Umm… how'd you sleep last night?"

"I didn't."

Oh, crap….

"I was up all night working on the potion," she continued. I was only half relieved though. Even though she wasn't trying to go to sleep, we still were probably distracting her. And while I would never take those moments back for anything in the world, I was pretty embarrassed she had to hear them in all their sexy loudness.

"Don't worry about the noise," she added in. I was relieved again that I wouldn't have to be the one to bring up the topic.

"Oh, okay…. I am sorry though, y'know, about all the distractions it might have caused and the p-"

"Fai." She interrupted me. "Don't worry about it," she repeated. "I'm happy that you finally snapped out of that little insecure phase of yours."

"Yeah…."

"So! How was it?" she asked, which shocked me a little.

"…Incredible."

She smiled at me, jumping up to hug me. I hugged back, still feeling a little awkward. I was glad when she changed the topic to the potion we had been working on together for the past few days.

"Is it done?"

"Yes!" she answered excitedly.

"And I still can't know what it does?"

"Nope! You'll know soon enough though, all right?"

I decided not to pry. I would wait patiently. After all, it's not like it was something bad or harmful, right?

Karolene and I made it outside to find Kurogane sitting by the stream, chomping away on a banana.

"Just couldn't wait until we arrived, could you, Kuro-hungry?"

"Syuut uhk," he said with his mouth full. I think he said, "Shut up."

We ate without much more conversation other than Karolene assigning us jobs for the day.

"Fai, today I need you to go off to the southern part of the island. I need more oranges for a potion I'm making. And you're going to have to go alone, because I need Kurogane here to help me do some manual labor."

I wasn't too keen on revisiting that part of the island because of who I knew was over there, but I didn't refuse. Though I enjoyed every last second of Kurogane's body, I still felt pretty bad about having sex in Karolene's house while she was being so hospitable letting us stay there, knowing that she was not exactly at the highest point in her life right then. I made a mental note to make it up to her in any way I could.

Ah, it was a little harder than I thought to part from Kurogane, knowing I wouldn't see him again for a few hours. We gave each other swift kisses when Karolene had her back turned.

She allowed me to take one of her spears with me just in case I met up with one of the cannibals, but she told me to make absolutely sure that I left it behind after getting the oranges. Karolene knew that the savages knew that someone was taking their things they left around. Since she could spare the spear, she thought leaving the spear behind might give them the notion that either no one is taking anything or the one who is doing the taking is giving everything back. I knew that wasn't what I would think if I were them, but I didn't argue. I would do as I was told.

With my protective spear I set off for the south. I knew I had a ways to go and I knew it wouldn't be any fun without Kurogane or at least Karolene to talk to. I tried to enjoy the scenery, but after being on this island for over a week, I was already too used to it to enjoy it. I tried humming a tune, but I wasn't feeling very musical at that moment. I tried counting, then singing the alphabet backwards, tapping beats on the ground with my spear, and finally, thinking about Kurogane. I must say, that idea lasted the longest.

Sex with Kurogane was the best feeling I has ever felt. And I couldn't believe I had gotten so close to driving him away. If he didn't feel the way he feels, he probably would have given up on me completely. He could have gone to Karolene to fulfill whatever desires he had at the moment, but no. He didn't. Kurogane obviously had love so deep for me that… I can't even begin to fathom the depth of his feelings! (haha, measurement pun) And the same went for me. Kurogane was my world. Losing him would be like losing a vital organ. Or losing your favourite toy as a child. Or even like having a major project destroyed after working on it for months and months. But come to think of it, losing Kurogane would be worse than all of those things. Except for maybe the organ one. I could die. And I didn't want to die. Not now. I had no reason to die. I was happy. And Kurogane was happy. We were happy.

I wondered when we would have sex next…. I hoped tonight we could do it again. In some different positions to spice things up. And just a little bit quieter so that we wouldn't destroy Karolene's night of sleep again. I still was sorry about that. Maybe Kurogane and I could have a game this time. We both have to be as quiet as possible no matter how good it feels. And maybe we could do some foreplay. There was a set a shackles and chains I picked up from the beach after the storm… and also plenty of other obscure props that we could use to get even kinkier. Mmmm, I was getting a crazy feeling just thinking about what we would do tonight. Nope, it wasn't an option anymore. That was what was going to happen.

I though about how he would react to me telling him. I played out various versions of the conversation in my head.

Version One

Me: Heyy, Kuro-sexy.

Him: (smirks) What, idiot?

Me: Karolene's gone to bed. Wanna mess around? (pressing my chest against his) I've got some… ideas. Wanna try some kinky stuff?

Him: (putting his hands on my butt) Absolutely. (kisses me passionately)

Me: (kisses back, just as passionately, then whispers) Let's go….

Him: (one more kiss) Come on. I'm getting hard just thinking about you and your fine ass. (he grabs one of my butt cheeks and leads me into the room)

Version Two

Fai-horny: Kurooo~!

Kuro-seme: (laying on the bed on his side with only a palm leaf covering him) Quit fooling around and get in this bed right now.

Fai-horny: Right away, Kuro-puu! (catwalk to the edge of the bed with a visible half-boner)

Kuro-seme: Get on this bed and get those shorts off right now.

Fai-horny: (get on top of Kurogane, but stay clothed, teasing)

Kuro-seme: (flips over so I'm on the bottom, moving downward to rip my boxers off with his teeth. He stops once he gets them off)

Fai-horny: (breathing heavily) Don't… stop… there… Kuro… meanie….

Kuro-seme: Call me by my name.

Fai-horny: (still breathing heavily) Kurogane….

Kuro-seme: Louder….

Fai-horny: Kurogane!

Kuro-seme: LOUDER!

Fai-horny: KUROGANE!

Kuro-seme: (slurps up my sausage)

Fai-horny: Ahhh, Kurogane! Ahhhhh!

Version Three

Fai-seme: We're doing it, Kuro. Right now. Get undressed.

Kur-uke: (smirks) Way to take the initiative.

Fai-seme: Just let me get one thing…. (comes back with some rope and shackles)

Kur-uke: (smirks more) I like where this is going.

Fai-seme: (crawls on top of Kurogane, who did get undressed, sliding my tongue past his lips)

Kur-uke: (gladly accepts, slapping both hands on my butt)

Fai-seme: (craftily before he can notice, I tie his arms together and slide out of his grasp so I can secure his wrists)

Kur-uke: What the hell?

Fai-seme: (pull down my pants) Shut up and suck it!

Mmmm, just the thought of these things happening were making me hot. If I hadn't taken a break from my Kuro-fantasies to look at my surroundings, I would have missed the orange trees!

I took the initiative to make several palm leaf baskets to carry the oranges in. I would only be able to carry three baskets in my arms, but I made six. I would carry an extra one under each filled one. I was feeling confident that I wouldn't meet any cannibals either. I hadn't heard a single sound that wasn't a bird, chirping in the trees, or the stream nearby. Everything was very peaceful, and very calm, but I didn't want to let my guard down too much. I was in their territory.

I gathered about fifteen or so oranges, which I struggled to carry in my arms in the baskets I had made. It took me a little longer than I would have liked, but I finished. The sun was about to begin setting not long from now. I set my spear down like Karolene told me to and began to head back to where I knew my Kuro-sweetie would be waiting.

Ahh, I missed him. It had only been a few hours, but I missed him dearly. We hadn't been apart like this in... ever! Was I obsessing? I didn't want to feel like I was, but I probably was, so I did feel like I was. But to some extent, I didn't care. I didn't want to appear too clingy or desperate though. That would be easy though, since I liked to tease the man.

How would I greet him? We couldn't jump to the sex right away. Would I take the direct, "I missed you more than I can ever say" approach?

"Kuro-puu, I've missed youuu! Kiss me!"

And then he would kiss me, and we would hold hands. Then I might say, "I've been thinking about this all day...!"

Or perhaps I would take the "I can't survive without you, but don't want you to know that" road.

"Hey, Kuro."

"Hey, sexy."

Then he would hug me affectionately, and I would respond in a slightly less affectionate way that usual.

Nahh, then he would think something was wrong with me. And I don't need to put him through any more scares. I will respond with equal or more affection than I feel from him, which is probably what I'll be feeling anyway.

What was that?

I thought I had heard a noise. I stopped in my tracks to listen, trying to detect any movement nearby, trying to see if it was me or not. I came to the conclusion that it was me who had made the loud crunching noise. I did see crunchy leaves under my feet. I moved on.

What was that?

I asked myself the same question again that I had asked seconds earlier. I was still on leafy ground, so I made a point to not step on any more leaves. Then that would not happen anymore.

Not again!

Minutes later, a third noise followed.

I tried to find every possible reason that the same noise could have been made by me. This time, I wasn't so certain that the one small leaf beneath my feet had made such a loud crunch. I could no longer deny that I was being followed.

Who was it? Was it the savages? How many of them were there? What did I do? Stay put? Run for my life? What about the oranges I had been sent to get? Did I care about them? Was-

I didn't have a chance to ponder on anything else. In just a few short seconds, all I could see were savages racing at me from my right through my wide eyes. I froze in horror, dropping my oranges and my jaw. Even if I had ran, I was being ambushed from all sides, so at least one of them would have caught me. Their ugly, dirt-crusted faces neared me as they screamed out battle-cries, but I couldn't understand them. I could smell dried blood and rotten meat on every last one of them and could feel their spears, even though they had not yet stabbed me. It's not like my spear would have helped me if I did have it. I couldn't move.

They knocked me out with one swift jab to the skull with the end of a spear.

It was almost dark when I woke up. Light and heat radiated off of torches that I saw surrounding me. I was tied up by my wrists and ankles with incredibly tight rope and I was being held above the heads of the savages. I felt disgusting. They had been touching me with their unwashed hands, covered in dried blood and filth. If I wasn't bound with rope, the first thing I would have done would have been to run into the ocean. But I couldn't do that, because the cannibals threw me on the ground. Dirt got in my mouth and nose. I coughed and spat the dirt out, squirming to sit on my butt. I look toward another source of light other than what was behind me, and I could not believe my eyes once my eyes began to sort out what it was that they were seeing.

There, by the stream, sat not only my Kuro-puu, but Karolene as well, sitting on a rock. Well, Kurogane was the only one sitting on a rock. Karolene was sitting in Kurogane's lap in her mermaid form, tail wrapped around his body and wagging slowly, and her arms around his neck as she pulled herself closer so that she was pressed against him. Kurogane had one hand on what would have been her butt if she were human and another hand on her lower back. They were looking into each other's eyes until Karolene turned her head slowly to look at me. She gave me the nastiest smile I had ever seen before slowly turning back to Kurogane.

"Kiss me," she whispered to him, loud enough so that I could hear her lust strewn voice. And he obeyed.

This was not a dream. If it were a dream, I would have put it in the present tense. But oh, how I wish it were just a bad dream, a horrible nightmare that I could forget about once I woke up and found myself in Kurogane's arms, knowing he would never have it any other way.

My jaw dropped and the tears came.

"Kurogane!" I screamed in a cracked voice. "Kurogane…!"

He slowly turned to face me, stopping the kiss with Karolene, but Karolene turned his head back to face her.

"Don't stop, Kurogane…" she said, diving back into his face for more. She made it clear as glass that they were using tongue. Lots of tongue.

I watched in horror as Karolene pressed her body against his, biting and licking his lips as she kissed him. She took her coconut bra off and threw it at me, where it landed in my lap. I struggled to get it off, but it just ended up with me back on my side on the ground and the bra next to me.

"That's better," she said quietly, pressing back against him with the only thing that kept them from total contact gone. "This is what you like, isn't it?" she asked him.

Kurogane nodded. "Yes."

"Do you enjoy men?" she asked him, stroking his chest.

"No."

"Did you enjoy him last night?"

"No."

"Did you ever love Fai?"

"Never."

"Who do you want?"

"You."

"Why?" she asked, backing away from him a few inches.

"You're sexy. And because I love you," he said, pulling her back into him and a long, deep kiss.

I couldn't believe I was watching this. I didn't want to, of course, but at the same time, I couldn't look away, as painful as it was to see my boyfriend, who I thought loved me, kiss all over Karolene as if she was me. It was supposed to be me and Kurogane. No one else even close to entering the equation, but somehow, Karolene had made herself a constant and kicked me to the other side so that Karolene + Kurogane = Broken-hearted Fai. I had to know why that had to be the answer. Hadn't I been through enough already? I thought I had finally found something to be happy about, something to believe in. I had finally found someone who I was certain loved me, but it all turned out to be a lie.

"Kurogane…. Why…? Why…?" That was all I could say as I cried silently, tears rolling down my face and to the ground, since my hands were tied up and could not wipe them away.

Karolene spoke for him.

"You know as well as I do that Kurogane is too sexy to be left to someone like you. You also should know by now that Kurogane is straight, not a freak homo like you. Kurogane loves a woman's body, my body, and my body alone. From the moment I saw him I had been plotting to get him away from you. And I saw my opportunities very clearly. All I had to do was get you to trust me and get you closer to Kurogane."

"Why would you want me closer to him if you were going to just take him away from me?" I yelled at her through my tears, exasperated and confused.

She smirked. "To make it that much more painful."

My heart practically stopped. Crying and hearing such news was proving so difficult that I could hardly breathe. She continued speaking.

"I told him to get under your skin and crack your shell wide open until you were willing to have sex with him. I told him to take your virginity. And he did it. And I know he did. Not only did I hear you scream every other second, I know he did it because Kurogane does whatever I say. Don't you?"

"Yes." he said.

"And why is that?"

"Because I love you."

Kurogane swiftly kissed her again.

"No! No, there's no way! There's no way…." I shouted at her, tears getting in my mouth.

"What, you don't believe me?" Karolene asked me. "Allow me to demonstrate."

Slowly, (everything she did was painfully slow) Karolene uncurled her tail from Kurogane's back, jumping onto the ground with her hands, her mer-tail following her.

"Stand up," she commanded.

Kurogane stood.

"Pull down your boxers," she demanded.

Kurogane pulled them down, revealing himself not only to me and her, but the cannibals still behind me as well. He wasn't having an erection though.

"Sit back down."

He sat.

She seal-walked over to him flipping her hair backward before propping herself up between his spread out legs and picking up Kurogane's sausage.

"No…" I said weakly. "Don't… you… dare…."

Karolene stroked him and Kurogane lightly moaned.

"Don't what?" she asked me.

"Get away from him, you bitch! He's mine. You aren't taking him away from me! He's all I have!" I began to worm my way over to her. "He's mine, you bitch!"

"Restrain him further, Temona," Karolene said to the crowd behind me. I recalled that name from days ago when Kurogane and I were spying on the savages. I felt myself being picked up off of my side. I fought against her as best as I could, but it was no use when four other savages came over to help her tie me up further by holding me down. I decided to stop just so that it would be over with and they could get away from me. The rope that bound my feet was now tied together with the binding on my wrists by a third rope. I was in a ball now. If I were to escape, the only thing I would be able to do would be to roll.

"That's better…. Now, where were we?"

Karolene focused back on Kurogane with her eyes dead set on him and his giant self.

"What do you want to happen, Kurogane?"

"Touch me," he breathed.

"Where?"

"There!" he pointed.

"Nowhere!" I screamed.

"Shut him up," Karolene told the savages.

They stuffed an unimaginable amount of leaves inside my mouth. I could have thrown up, but I tried my hardest not to, because the vomit would have had to stay in my mouth because nothing was leaving my mouth. Not the leaves, not the dirt, not my words.

"Let's not delay this any longer…" Karolene said seductively to Kurogane, reaching for him. And he allowed her to take him and jerk him around. He moaned at the touch, even though she was doing it all wrong in my opinion. This whole scenario was wrong. I was hoping that it was all just a big trick. I would still be very hurt if it was a trick, but at least this wouldn't be real. Kurogane really never loved me?

"You're about to come, aren't you?" Karolene asked Kurogane.

"Y-yes…."

"I want to taste it. Let me taste all of it."

Karolene put Kurogane inside of her mouth, which was the final push he needed to come right inside her. The excess dripped down from the corner of her mouth onto the ground. Karolene climbed back on top of Kurogane to sit and make out with him again.

"Did you enjoy that?"

"Yes." Kurogane nodded.

"Would you have enjoyed it if it came from him?"

"No."

"And why not?"

"Because I love you and only you."

"That's right. And this is my final word to you." Karolene turned to me. "I knew as soon as I saw this sexy man that he was only with you because you were the only other one on the island. No other possible explanation, because he said as soon as he saw me, he fell deeply in love with me. Isn't that right?"

"No!" I said.

"Yes," Kurogane said.

"Just give up, Fai," Karolene told me in the nastiest voice possible. "I plan on keeping Kurogane human for a few more days before I take him home to my family as a sexy merman. You know what the best part about this is? Not only do I get to have human sex and mer-sex, when he transforms, he will be twice as sexy as he is now. Can you imagine it, Fai? If you can, great, because you will never see him again. Take a good last look, because this will be the last perfect couple you see in your life. You are going to be tortured. You are going to die. And they are going to eat you. Would you like to say goodbye to the idiot, Kurogane?"

"No."

"Well, I guess this is it then! But I shouldn't be rude, I suppose I should say thank you for giving me your man. Really, it's too much, Fai, but you don't deserve him. You never did, and he knew it, but he needed someone right then. And since you are merely a last resort, you have no reason to live. Goodbye. Now go die."

Karolene whispered something to Kurogane, but I could barely see, think or breathe anymore.

Kurogane walked over to me, kicked me hard in the stomach, and walked back over to the rock. I curled tighter into a ball and was picked up by the savages and carried away. When I tried to roll, they stopped me. It didn't take long for me to give up.

So… Kurogane never loved me…. It was all a lie…. I was just a fuck buddy because Karolene had ordered Kurogane to pretend to love me. Damn… Kurogane was an excellent actor. I should have gone with my instincts and left Kurogane when I had the chance…. But now it's too late. No wonder he wanted me to have sex with him so badly. I suppose this is it then. This is the end to my miserable life. Technically, I never got to have any real happiness, because it was all a lie. I hope they make this quick…. I don't want to live anymore. Life is a bitch, just like Karolene. I can't believe I was so… stupid! How could I have not seen this coming?

I looked back at the beginning of my day.

All that stuff I had planned for us… All those things we could have been doing right now… Karolene took it all away. Even if he didn't really love me, would that have been alright for me to think he did? It was better than nothing. It was better than this.

I looked back at last night with Kurogane.

Even if it meant nothing, (or rather was just a plot to get me closer to Kurogane so that him leaving would be infinitely more painful) I must say that I much prefer not knowing anything about this. This is a perfect example of "ignorance is bliss." I would have been happy forever just thinking that Kurogane loved me. I had been convinced that he loved me.

I looked back at how Kurogane kissed me and held me.

His lips were thin, but soft and fit with mine perfectly when he would kiss me. His hugs were warm and just tight enough to let me think that he would never let me go. Then he would take me into his lap and let me sit on it. Oh… but Karolene was sitting on his lap now….

I looked back at the way Kurogane told me he loved me.

He got so upset when I told him that I didn't think he loved me…. But now that I think about it, it all makes sense. I had caught on. He had to prevent me from having those thoughts for the sake of their plan to tear my heart to pieces.

I can't believe this is happening…. It just… can't be real. But it is real. Kurogane never loved me. He loves Karolene. Evidently, I am not meant to be loved. And if I am not loved, I am not needed. Karolene is right. The only thing left for me to do is to die.

WAY LATER EDIT: My goodness, I was cruel to Fai. Let's see what happens now, after two years of waiting for the ever-elusive Day Ten.